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ISBN: 0679762094 - Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl

Title:	Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl
Author:	Virginia Lee Barnes (Contributor) Janice Boddy (Contributor)
Publisher:	Vintage
Type:	Book / Paperback
Publication Date:	29 August, 1995
ISBN / ISBN-13:	0679762094 / 9780679762096
List Price:	$16.95
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This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society.��By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger.��Aman eventually runs away to Mogadishu, where her beauty and rebellious spirit leads her to the decadent demimonde of white colonialists.��Hers is a world in which women are both chattel and freewheeling entrepreneurs, subject to the caprices of male relatives, yet keenly aware of the loopholes that lead to freedom.��Aman is an astonishing history, opening a window onto traditional Somali life and the universal quest for female self-awareness.��

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